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811.
by nickpp 4y ago
See Biden's pro-union stance to the point he avoids naming Tesla when talking about EV manufacturers because Tesla is anti-union.
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by nickpp 4y ago
Oh no, I was referring to AB5, the law a politician (Lorena Gonzalez) owned by a huge multinational syndicate (Teamsters) pushed through so that even gig workers could be pressured to join the union and pay the fees. A law so incredibly ine
813.
by nickpp 4y ago
The tech angle was just an excuse. The real reason was to protect old European money scared by the newcomers.
814.
by nickpp 4y ago
Should we see a mass pardon now that drugs are becoming more and more legal in the US?
815.
by nickpp 4y ago
San Francisco sunk huge piles of money in "solving" the housing crisis. Without allowing people to actually build, of course. It also has driven out big tech with with idiotic policies and taxes. Remember the anti-Uber law? The Tw
816.
by nickpp 4y ago
Failing to understand Supply and Demand law of basic economics is a defining characteristics for left-wing politicians. Protecting their turfs and their own is quite common across both sides of the spectrum.
817.
by nickpp 4y ago
> And who’s to blame Left-wing policies enacted by left-wing city governments.
818.
by nickpp 4y ago
Oh this is a beautiful concept - I didn't know about it. Explains so much. Thank you!
819.
by nickpp 4y ago
Every once in a while I re-read Diaspora. It's hard to read another sci-fi book afterwards, Diaspora just explains everything.
820.
by nickpp 4y ago
Of course there is. You just have to improve the demand side of the employment equation: make starting companies so easy and profitable that the competition for hires will make them get over any gender prejudice they may have. Takes a littl
821.
by nickpp 4y ago
Thus creating yet another disincentive for companies to list themselves on the market, leaving EU markets further behind their US counterparts.
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by nickpp 4y ago
> The goal is to broaden the hiring pool. If that was the goal, how about creating a more startup-friendly climate? Stop treating business like the enemy, stop burdening them with red tape and onerous regulation and you'll have more
823.
by nickpp 4y ago
Totally agree but now I wish the author would get some kind of small reward for his effort so that he's incentivized to keep writing this kind of content.
824.
by nickpp 4y ago
I hope Brazil has more local smartphone producers then, because the EU has no significant one (that I am aware of)...
825.
by nickpp 4y ago
I believe you, thanks for writing about it here.
826.
by nickpp 4y ago
So the solution for protectionism-created problems is... more protectionism?
827.
by nickpp 4y ago
The free market was doing just fine, thank you very much. It converged by itself into two pretty good standards (none of the previously EU-recommended micro-USB abomination) - one private one open but each having a big enough market to make
828.
by nickpp 4y ago
I'm wondering if the desired outcome (return to the office) would be enough to justify the effort. But I think that pretty soon, with help of various tools, injecting fake info on the net will be so easy and cheap that the only way to
829.
by nickpp 4y ago
Yeah, so I keep hearing. Never met one of those people or one of those effects myself though.
830.
by nickpp 4y ago
So - it's a conspiracy?!
831.
by nickpp 4y ago
Oh, I read about those but I saw absolutely no change in my daily use, other the tweets commenting, of course. The app worked fine. I am at most a casual user though.
832.
by nickpp 4y ago
Haven’t seen any change at all as a Twitter user since the whole Elon brouhaha started.
833.
by nickpp 4y ago
To understand why you’re wrong ask yourself: would USB-C even exist if some global government would’ve succeed in mandating micro USB chargers as the EU tried in the past?! We’d all be stuck with the wold's worst connector. Luckily usb
834.
by nickpp 4y ago
There are plenty of both but most are supporting my current beliefs, that is why I still have them.
835.
by nickpp 4y ago
Same things that would change anybody's mind: logical arguments and real-world examples.
836.
by nickpp 4y ago
Still the devices I currently own are the best devices I ever had. And the services I subscribe to are incredible services that never even existed before. Free markets are not always providing perfect solutions, but I am absolutely sure gov
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by nickpp 4y ago
It might also have had something to do with having a planned economy unable to fulfil the most basic of the population needs, from food to toilet paper. Rather shocking for a country that used to be Europe's wheat exporter before insta
838.
by nickpp 4y ago
Labor market in Western Europe became so corrupted by leftist policies after the mid-20th century that it became basically anti-business. This affected startups the most, since businesses are most vulnerable in their startup phase. And the
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by nickpp 4y ago
Free Markets - the biggest wealth creation engine known to man. The most impressive and amazing reversal of fortune I've personally lived through was the switch from planned economy to free markets which took place in Eastern Europe af
840.
by nickpp 4y ago
I do not trust a government to protect me against spying by another. I trust the EU less than the USA - it's deeply infiltrated by Russian influence. I trust my own government the least: it is completely corrupted and only interested t

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